A police takedown in a public park in front of children and families was caught on video Wednesday afternoon.

A grandmother told WISN 12 News reporter Terry Sater that police had guns drawn as they got their man at a splash pad.

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Angelina Martinez said made eye contact with the man, and she said it was a look that told the suspect, "Don't force police to shoot you with all the kids at this park."

"They were screaming. Everybody was screaming," Martinez said.

The chase ended in Clarke Square Park on Milwaukee's south side with the bank robbery suspect handcuffed at gunpoint.

"Running and jumping over the fence with police, heavily armed, behind him with automatic rifles and telling him to stop, they're going to shoot. There were about 20 kids in the pool," Martinez said.

She said that's where the man chose to run from police.

"He could have took a hostage. It could have been an extremely worse situation," Martinez said.

Police said the man was accused of robbing a TCF Bank near Miller Park just minutes before.

"I was afraid, as a grandmother, that they were going to shoot and open fire on him. That was my fear. My fear it was going to ricochet a bullet off the building and hit one of my grandkids," Martinez said.

Martinez said she's not angry with police.

"So they did what they had to do, so I agree with everything they did. I just wish it didn't have to be that way," she said. "It could have gotten really, really bad."

Sater went to the West Milwaukee police station Wednesday night, where the suspect was being questioned and authorities confirmed Milwaukee police helped them chase down the suspect.

Martinez said some of the kids who witnessed what happened here are still upset about it.